The one thing about the Internet that
makes it one of a kind, is the user controls the experience. Almost entirely.
They decide what system to use, what colors they like, what font sizes
they want, and most importantly what they view, download etc. At least
until these things show up... they are hated one and all and new programs
come out daily to block and prevent these kinds of intrusive take over
tactics. These are not things to use on a responsible website to
resolve advertising issues, as they will not only ignore the ads, if done
to excess, will cause the customer to ignore your entire site and therefore
your business.

The web has lots
of "free" content, which is ad supported, this is normal and expected,
as there is no "service for free" some price must be paid, and the payment
is adverts, but there is no place for any of the following on the main
pages of a business site.

Install on demand:

These can be anything from needed language
files, to tool bars that contain adverts etc. that pop up the second
they hit your site and ask to install themselves. This is particularly
bad if the same thing keeps popping up page after page on the site, especially
after the viewer has already told it no, do not install. They are annoying
and intrusive and will cause most viewers to avoid your site.

In the case of needed language or font
files, it would be best to have an entry page that advises the viewer that
to view the site as intended they need X file, before
they proceed.

Any other attempt to install programs,
on demand like this, is the kiss of death to any website. You are asking
your viewer to download an unknown program to their hard drive ! This is
not reasonable in the current day and age of rampant virus's.

You can prevent
this activity in Internet Explorer by disabling the install on demand commands,
which you will find under internet options, advanced menu.

Lay over advert boxes:

These are those boxes of adverts that
come floating in from the side of the page that will NOT go away unless
you click them closed, which are normally situated right over the top of
whatever you are trying to see. Now the reason they are placed in
such a position, is eye tracking studies prove, that is were people look
the most. However, all it gets is closed, with vindictive force.

No one reads these things, and everybody
hates them. Sites that have these things will come to be avoided. Free
services often force these things, and a great many sites have such services,
myself included, such as my guest book, but to put them on your primary
pages, is unwarranted.

Taking your viewer to an ad page in
transit:

This is where you click to see a page,
only to be taken to an advert page first and forced to wait, one assumes
to read the page, before it will let you see content you asked for. This
violates the trust of the viewer. If I hit a link that says, take me to
X page, that's what I expect to see. Do not drag me in front of some advertisement
and make me wait for the content and expect me to be anything but upset
about it. There are currently plans in the works for more of this kind
of in transit advert.

I do not expect they will be any better
received than the current ones. For example:

In-line Interstitials, or Daughter
windows:

A 5 to 10 second animated advertisement
like TV commercials, which is non clickable or closeable. Which is in its
infancy at this point, but is the wave of the tomorrow. Unlike TV commercials
however you can not avoid them, other than to walk away till it's gone.
I really do hope they don't do this one and again, I can predict it will
be as avoided and hated as its TV cousin. Needless to say any site that
uses them will be as avoided as the Ad will be.

The plans are, to put these in the natural
breaks of surfing, much like TV does, but it's expected, once perfected,
there will be those that subject the viewer to these as soon as they arrive
on site, or use them between every page, in rampant over use. I can easily
predict that viewers will avoid sites that use such tactics.

Pop ups and pop unders:

Those little boxes of content the viewer
did not ask for. Opening a new window for the sites content is another
matter entirely, as its a useful and normally accepted practice. New
windows VS Pop ups. Ditto with notices of no right click and the like,
anything else is not acceptable.

When the pop up industry first began,
it was expected the viewer would see one a day.. yes not joking one a day
was the plan, but like all good things it got a little carried away.
Now, it's not at all unusual to have multiple pop ups per page. A waste
of time for advertising, and annoying to the viewer. Most ISP's come with
pop killers now, ditto most browsers, in a word, enough is enough ... pop
ups are dead and it's time to give them a proper burial.

Browser frames:

These are a kind of advert that completely
takes over the browser and re frames the entire thing with adverts. These
literally replace the users browser. It does not matter if you have a link
that says "remove this frame". This is an attempt to "keep" the viewer,
often used in conjugation with out links, so that they take the host site
with them.

There are others in planning that will
literally take over the base line functions, changing the toolbar and adding
adverts to the function keys. Unacceptable, as you have hi-jacked the viewers
browser. If they like your site, they will be back, this sort of take over
is inexcusable.

Do you want to make (page) your home
page ?:

This one is not really an advert but
is another attempt to take over the browser. This is usually a pop up or
under at the browser level, and considering that most of the time they
have not even seen the page in question yet, its a bit presumptive. If
the viewer likes your page enough to use it for a home page, they will
do so on their own.

Those sites that automatically change
over their viewers browser, via enforced changes, without asking,
have shot themselves in the foot. As once the viewer logs back on and finds
this take over, not only will they not buy from you, they will blacklist
you to everyone they know. So both are very poor marketing.

Now the defense of this is, the ads
pay the bills for the hosting and such like. Well the question is, do they
really ? And why would any good, for profit, business site need outside
advertisers to support them ? If the product line is good, the site and
the business, will support itself.

Millions of dollars were pumped into
banner ads a few years ago, which, short of being on a proper links page,
where they are expected and sought after, are an unqualified failure. The
current side and top adverts, currently being over used, are following
suit in
viewer blindness.

The Internet is not like printed newspapers,
magazines, or TV shows, which are mainly ad supported. People pay for their
Internet connections and people actively seek out business sites, via search
engines. The only advertisement any business site really needs is good
search engine saturation, good keywording on the site and excellent business
practices that encourage customer loyalty. Anything else, like the above,
is not going to be tolerated by Internet consumers and will be avoided,
ignored and considered a hostile act on the part of the business.